Archive - 20 December 2003

After several uninterrupted years of operation, the FAC website was shut down by its UK-based web host on Dec 11. Webmaster Raja Petra Kamarudin hopes all the files will be made available if he has to move.

The national carrier has put on 280 extra flights to meet a surge in demand in the run-up to the year-end holidays and Chinese New Year, and added a route to Indonesia.

The prime minister states the obvious - he welcomes the intention of MCA and Gerakan to merge saying that it will be good for the BN. But it ain't as easy as it looks, as Dr Lim Keng Yaik agrees.

Even as President Chandrika Kumaratunga set up a committee for a free media, the state media has been described as a set of musical chairs reflecting on the way it has been used by the country's two political parties.

The official residence where former Malaysian prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad lived was opened to the public today. Pak Lah officiated at the opening of Galeria Sri Perdana.

A Thai national who ran amok at the Kuala Lumpur Hospital last month has been sentenced to 17 years jail and three strokes of the cane.

After ordering the detention of the five "Karachi" students under the Internal Security At (ISA) for two years, the Home Ministry has yet to furnish the reasons for the decision.

The spontaneous celebration after Saddam's capture is not in Iraq but in the United States, and that one is Christian and the other Muslim, underlines the widening divide of culture and civilisation in this globalised world.

Sub-contractors of the Rawang-Ipoh electrified double-tracking railway project are appealing to the government to resolve the non-payment of their dues before next month's Chinese New Year celebration.

Malaysia's national oil firm Petronas says it has agreed to acquire 30 percent equity in a project to develop a liquefied natural gas terminal in Wales. A letter of intent has been signed.